796 



MEAN OF THE 



MONTHS. 



EXTREME TEMPERATURE. 







maxima. 



minima. 



November 



22.76° R. 



24.8° R. 



23.1° R, 



December 



21.70 



24.0 



21.7 



January 



21.49 



23,5 



22.2 



February 



21.56 



24.4 



22.2 



March 



21.20 





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23.35 



26.2 



24.2 



June 



22.71 



24.8 



21.3 



July 



21.79 



24.4 



21.3 





22.00 



24 8 



22.2 



Mean... 



22.16 R. 



24.8 R. 



22.5 R. 



or 



27.60 cent. 



30.9 cent. 



28.7 cent. 



Perhaps the general mean of Cumana is some 

 decimals more, because the temperature of the 

 months of September and October a little ex- 

 ceeds that of the month of August. The mean 

 of the extreme (maxima) of heat, surpasses only 

 3.3° cent, the mean of the whole year. In 

 comparing the mean temperature of three 

 towns of the republic of Columbia in which a 

 great number of meteorological observations 

 have been made, we find, Cumana (lat. 10° 

 27' ; height 5 toises), 27.7° cent. ; Caraccas 

 (lat. 10° 31' ; height, 480 1.) 21.5° ; Santa Fe de 

 Bogota (lat. 4° 35' ; height, 1366 t.) 14.6°. At 

 the extremity of the torrid zone, at the Havan- 

 nah (lat. 23° 10') the mean temperature of the 

 air differs very little (2.1° cent.) from the mean 



